-IANS LUCKNOW: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted raids in Uttar Pradesh as well as Gujarat in connection with the probe into embezzling of funds from the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Raids were conducted in Ghaziabad, Lucknow and Agra as well as in Vaapi, Gujarat, CBI sources said. The action, seen as knee-jerk, comes after a severe rap by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday...
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In Kashmir, families of missing people move human rights panel -Nazir Masoodi & Janaki Fernandes
-NDTV Srinagar: More than 500 families of missing persons in Jammu and Kashmir have filed cases before the state Human rights panel seeking that DNA tests be conducted on the thousands of unmarked graves in northern Kashmir. This comes after the Jammu & Kashmir government refused to exhume bodies in unmarked graves and carry out DNA profiling to ascertain their identity. The state government told the human rights panel that their investigations concluded...
More »Bureaucrats in West Bengal tighten belt, opt for bus tour -Suman Chakraborti
-The Times of India KOLKATA: Call it fuel austerity. For the first time, the principal secretaries of 18 departments of the state government — including chief secretary Samar Ghosh — will tour five districts in a bus rather than hired cars. This will not only save a huge amount of fuel cost, the government won't have to pay for the accommodation of the drivers and other related expenses. The secretaries will not,...
More »Bihar orders inquiry into cases of removal of uterus: Centre -K Balchand
-The Hindu The Centre on Tuesday said Bihar and Chhattisgarh had initiated investigation into the alleged removal of uteruses of BPL women as part of a fraud to corner insurance money. Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad laid a copy of his statement, made in response to a calling attention motion sponsored by a host of MPs led by Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan, in the Rajya...
More »This Bill for acquisition is not steep at all-Jairam Ramesh, K Raju & Muhammad Khan
-The Hindu In her article in The Hindu, (“Nailing the lie of the land,” Op-Ed, August 23, 2012), Ms Medha Patkar has forcefully and with reason argued against the devastating consequences of land acquisition. Without getting into the concerns raised with regard to the larger “development model” we would like to respond to the issues she has raised with the proposed Bill on Land Acquisition which seem predicated on an understanding...
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